here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a donut. concludes the longest while bush campaign in our history covers the left well let me change dramatically before our eyes that some are going to stay. with twists and turns they've been the hallmarks of this thing for you to watch what we're about to do because you've never seen anything like this and so.

what's up guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set for a lot to be happy about you guys it's friday things given just around the corner and of course the breaking news that general petraeus just resigned oh if only he would resign for his crime of overseeing a murderous drone program and not an extramarital affair which brings me to this interesting development there's a new drone propaganda web site in town called increasing human potential. interesting choice of words there the site advocates the use of drones and how fitting that it's just in time for obama's second term to look new web sites holy dedicated to taking any humane edge off the practice of drone warfare and the mission statement says its goal is to quote highlight the valuable and endless benefits of all the unmanned systems and robotics what's behind this fancy rhetoric is that the people in yemen pakistan somalia afghanistan and any other country that the government has a shadow war in right now are being terrorized on a daily basis let's call a spade a spade this is just

a pathetic attempt to rebrand the drone king's policies just hours after obama got reelected he oversaw a drone bombing in yemen but you know when you have news agencies like the washington post. which sensors civilian death counts from drone bombings were lacking for the government it's kind of hard to sort through the decision from a ship so that's where i come in a break to set. the world you've never seen anything like. here's a disturbing story a kansas city family was completely startled when they discovered a surveillance camera on a tree in their front yard take a look at this. police it was first learned about the carrier last thursday after her father noticed it my dad came through the front door and said big brother is watching us and i don't know what he's talking about so he brings me to the back door and he points out the camera that he spotted while he was walking around the

yard took these photos of the camera which he says were pointed at her bedroom her children's room the backyard where her children play but she says not knowing initially why the care was put there who put it there was most unsettling unsettling indeed someone had been spying in her bedroom and on her children so of course actually the young woman decided to call and report to the cops but there was nothing to report because as soon as she called the police department they told her that they had been the ones to install the camera to monitor people coming through the woods but the woman claimed this made no sense and she suspects they were attempting to catch her father feeding stray cats she had been on probation for doing in the past year guys this is ludicrous a surveillance state against us is growing exponentially by the day and the rationale to spy on us is becoming ever more trivial at the same time the establishment is making it harder and harder to film them it's an issue our next guest knows very well he's been arrested multiple times for attempts to flip the

camera on the cops so to talk about his experience fighting the police state and explain what rights we have i'm joined by ian freeman host of the nationally syndicated radio talk. talk show free talk live and contributor to cop a walk in thank you so much for taking the time thanks for having me so you were just arrested a couple weeks ago for recording video in a public place i mean you caught a good majority of the day on camera let's take a look at some of that footage. just as you post a sign does that mean you get to eliminate the freedom of the press and have you are familiar with the clip decision. i'm just going to question i'm going to be certain there is no video by the way turns out there's also a difference are in this town hall now have you heard of the let me just interesting to shut off the video have you heard of the glick are you refusing now using the shut off a video camera i don't know if i am asking you have you heard of the click decision this is ridiculous man you were here last time when i was recording so you got

arrested for disorderly conduct not for filming i mean were they just trying to create a reason and explain why that collect decision is significant for incidents like this and others like it well sure glick decision was simon clerk he was an attorney in boston who was recording the police doing something all on to another person and of course they arrested him for it and thankfully he's an attorney so it was easy for him to take it court and go all the way that supreme court and get a ruling that basically reaffirms your right as an individual to record government bureaucrats when they're on duty in any public place so that's what i was doing there at a town hall there today and the reason they charged me with disorderly conduct is because basically beaten them down on the whole wiretapping claim so disorderly conduct it's always been that this catch all or you know any activist doing something or anybody doing something they don't like if they don't actually have a lot of get you with the go with disorderly conduct or you know resisting arrest

or some other catch all they have a handful of catches and that's one of them so even we know that some states have tried to make laws passed to. filming illegal to film cops i mean are there any states that currently have these laws on the books preventing citizens from filming or have the courts kind of upheld the citizen's rights here. you know i can answer there's fifty different states there are some states like illinois where it's way worse than in other states like wiretapping laws of course some states or two party consent recording states versus one already whereas you know for instance the federal law is one party in that if one person knows that there is a recording going on of a conversation then it's completely legal here in new hampshire for instance the two party state where everybody must know who is connected to a conversation that it's being recorded which makes doing undercover video work like you know busting a bad business or something or in this case bad bureaucrats very difficult i don't

even know what the situation is in massachusetts but it was pretty clear that i wasn't you know undercover recording or wiretapping in any way you know surreptitiously or secretly recording so that's why they came after me with a disorderly conduct charge and in theory i should be able to beat it but then again the court system always tends to lean towards its own people i mean and being prosecuted by the you know by the same as are running the court and in a lot of cases are your defense attorneys i won't be accepting state attorney to defend me however i think it all myself. saying yeah good point i mean every state has has different laws of course founder adam mueller having to serve three months in jail for pacifically this recording a conversation trying to i mean they're recording everything that he do so when you're trying to record a conversation or try to expose some sort of corruption of course the law comes down hard on us and i just want to ask you know this technology exists now to surveil through walls cops might have the ability to bring drug sniffing dogs here

neighborhood and of course trap wire i mean the extensive surveillance apparatus all across the country collectively what is the biggest problem that arises from the server. vaillant state and well the over time it's your privacy just keeps getting eroded ever further and the old question that the state defenders will ask is well if you don't have anything to hide why do you care and the thing is maybe you don't have anything to hide right now but eventually they might decide to make something that you do we legal and then you will have something to hide but by a bad point it might be too late and of course you always turn that question back around on them you know these government bureaucrats that are arresting camera people left and right what is the they have to hide what are they so afraid of maybe they're afraid people are going to see that they really are nothing more than just a criminal gang of governments nothing more than a criminal enterprise that's been very successful and they're so brazen they can fly flags out of their offices. we saw the oscar grant video kelly thomas i would

never know and we would never hold these people accountable even though of course initially didn't really get held accountable but i mean without video and without filming the cops we would never know what they're doing and of course the chilling effect is really the problem with the surveillance state and you contribute a lot to cop block what rights do people have i don't think a lot of people know that they don't have to allow cops in their home they don't have to allow cops to search their car i mean where can people find out what their rights are just explain all of that more about what people can do to fight the police state well obviously copple are going to work is a great resource lots of good information there the folks over flex your rights also do a good job of really laying out basic rights for folks and you don't have an obligation to answer the door when the police are there obviously they show you that on their television shows cops for instance is always going to show people answering the door and talking to them you know hollywood movies are always going to show people going to the door and talking to the police so you don't have to do what you see

them do on t.v. if the cops come to your house you have no obligation to answer talk to them in any way shape or form if you are driving they do so. you know i'm no attorney and but they say that you don't have to answer any questions beyond providing you know your license and registration if you're driving if you're sitting in the passenger seat you don't have to provide them with anything in most places that i know of so you know for instance you can't be obligated to have a driver's license on you if you are driving people think about these things and they're trained to to answer questions the police are trained to be very intimidating so when the cops tell someone to do something they tend to do it and people need to think twice before they just jump to it and obey whatever it is that they're told to do because it's our obedience that has allowed things to become the way that they are if people would stand up for the rights that they supposedly have then maybe we would actually be able to retain them but as long as people keep

giving up their freedoms keep being willing to go along to get along then we'll just keep losing more of it over time is that they just with a little way absolutely what about just walking around i'm going to stop you and ask you you know do you have your idea on you and kind of all the you know that do you just said you don't really need to carry an id or show cops that idea right and our own state's some states claim that you have to tell them who you are of being quire and i don't know which states those are and obviously like i said there's a litany of them. you can possibly argue you could have an id because it would require you to be going down to some government agency and submit yourself to their id in process you should be able to walk from point a to point b. without carrying identification but that doesn't mean they won't ask you and a car can stop you anywhere and ask you something just like any other human being can stop you on the street and ask you something but you don't have an obligation to answer their questions in fact one of the best things you can do is ask them

questions and return you know the old sales outages that he asked the questions of swimming and so you ask them a question am i being detained they usually have to answer that question. if you're not being detained then asking my free to go and then get out of there and go on with your day and be productive good really good point for activists here to really get that firsthand and i've been detained if i'm not you can leave really important thank you so much for breaking all that down it is getting more pervasive and we really do need to know our rights most important thing we can know and if we. continue to say one of the other most important things you can do is to get together with other people who think like you do so-called blocked out or has the ability to you know kind of syndicate it so if you will or duplicate to other areas there are different chapters around the country but there's a good group of them up here in new hampshire as part of the free state project where liberty minded people are all you know we're collecting in one place so we

can be even more effective with our activists and web sites project or absolutely everyone check out crop blocked out or preset project are going to go to new hampshire and check it out i heard there's a lot of cool stuff going on in freeman host of the nationally syndicated talk show free talk live and thank you so much for coming on sort of pleasure thank you. i feel like you see so far go to our you tube channel at youtube dot com slash breaking the set and subscribe to our facebook page at facebook dot com breaking the set now i know it is going to hate and trolls going to troll but if you're intelligent feel free to write me and let me know you think if you're wondering about what i'm doing or bitching about when i'm not on there follow me on twitter at abby martin take a break from my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear about a long list of allegations against defense contractors and the us government culture of impunity for war criminals.

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to the council in town in this for. four years ago president obama gave an unprecedented speech in cairo aimed at undoing an aeroflot relations with the muslim world and this speech the newly elected president projected his desire to turn the chapter on the past and embark on a new era of mutual understanding diplomacy and friendship and while many in the middle east were hopeful their optimism began to simmer as the arab spring turned into a bitter fall it became evident that palestine would remain ignored so now that obama's been elected for a second term what's the sentiment in the middle east and what actions can we

expect from the president now that he's not seeking reelection to talk about all this and more i'm joined by our to arabic correspondent rima. thank you so much for come. thank you for having me so really i was reading that many egyptians are relieved that obama got elected i want to read you this tweet. is a big sigh of relief from egypt the alternative was just too awful to consider do you think that the sentiment for many that are just so grateful that it's the lesser evil other people think that way it was a choice but we end a bad person and a worse a lot of them just think that way however i went through a lot of tweets from the arab world and love them just said it doesn't really matter it doesn't really matter if obama got elected or romney got elected they are just two faces or two heads of the same coin and the foreign policy if the u.s. is not going to change just because we have obama in power or we have romney i love

a lot of them were. very disappointed with obama that they thing having either romney or obama is not just going to be any worse than the past four years. couldn't agree more with us talk about israel you know a lot of people were talking to you during the lead up to the election the saying well here's the lesser of two evils you have romney who would definitely attack iran and then you have obama who wouldn't attack iran i personally never saw any indication that obama wouldn't attack iran i mean he said no option was off the table he said that he would draw a hard line he's been catering to netanyahu they've been competing for who can you know cater toward him more so i mean really what do you think about that like just the whole israel situation what do you think should have happened with iran and was there really between the two romney was not going to attack iran if there was an attack on iran it would be either romney or obama it does not have it it's not the president who is going to take

a decision like that it seems at least in the case of iran because when when romney was talking about iran he was talking about harsher out sanctions just what obama is doing right now i don't think. either one of them is if he's going to go. to start a war against or to wage war against iran it's not necessarily obama or romney if that decision is made that decision is made it's not romney is not going to start it obama is not going to start it they're just the same thing netanyahu is a little bit. you know you was here for romney just because romney is much more closer to the red line and he wanted to i. was i did a lot of reading about this seems as if people have mixed feelings about. feels right now that obama got reelected we have to mention that under obama's administration israel got more military aid then and then under any other

administration and they know that they realize that so for them to set the bar even higher wanting you asked to go. to another war just because they think that the red line should be here and there and i think even netanyahu himself believes that this is probably too much let's just give it a shot try and if it were out there yeah it works or it doesn't work that it doesn't work it is amazing that the bar just continues to be higher and higher in terms of. the money that the military support. let's let's shift to syria i mean our team just in an exclusive interview with. assad do you think that obama was waiting for reelection to really deal with syria i mean it's kind of something we can't ignore. the international community kind of has its eyes on the country what do you think's going to happen now that the reelection i think the arab world is divided over this some people say obama's not going to change his policies on syria he didn't have

a chance before didn't use it he's not going to change now he has a lot more at stake at home to take care of them are concerned wary of another war they're just not going to do another war. there for syria or in syria however a lot of people think that the u.s. was just waiting for the elections to be over to store not necessarily a buffer zone but maybe more military aid to the opposition not necessarily again through the you out through maybe other countries like saudi arabia qatar turkey you know any player on the ground so i mean we don't know exactly what's going to happen but we do have indications cameron the prime minister of england right after the election the reelection of obama was talking about a new plan for syria does that mean that they're going to do something in syria you know more probably more military aid again we don't know again this is something

that's dividing the arab world they just cannot see a clear policy from obama towards the middle east assad just said he's not going to stop them and he's going to die there just like gadhafi and we heard them talk about the no fly zones there's a lot of talk a lot of rhetoric being thrown around so it'll be very interesting to see how that plays out let's talk about palestinian statehood palestine is seeking good israel buildings settlements you know twelve hundred. completely just his unabashed lawlessness just moving forward with these settlements do you think anything is going to change now that obama is reelected i mean a lot of people are hopeful thinkin oh maybe now that he doesn't have one eye on the elections. elections and another eye on domestic issues basically economy maybe he can do something about the palestinian israeli especially because he was so enthusiastic in the first hour he just had so many hopes and he just laid them

out in cairo everywhere honestly i believe that he probably realizes there is nothing that he can do a. not when not now is in power not when lieberman is in power not when they simply continue to build settlements to. even put more checkpoints in cities there simply dividing the country making it impossible for the palestinians to create there to create their own country or establish their own country and the bit at the un this whale is a readiness for and the palestinians they have the tax money that they are withholding and they can do even or take more measures against the palestinians and it is obama willing to maybe exercise pressure him as well that's something that a lot of people think well you know you have to lobby the congress you have a lot of players here not mr that's not going to be the case not in the not in the

first year at least it was just seems like obama could at least condemn the fact that israel is violating international law by building an encroaching on post and then just like the rest of the international community france and and all these countries are saying we don't we condemn this we don't agree with this so for obama to just kind of sit back and just totally ally himself with israel is just i think an insult really and you know let's see if anything changes i fear that it won't hope. things do move forward thank you so much for coming on. really push your time thank you. i want to get serious i want to talk to you about torture but more importantly the impunity for torturers recently i learned about two u.s. military contractors who claim that u.s.

forces detained and tortured them in two thousand and six after they blew the whistle on their employer for illegally running guns the two have since filed a lawsuit against former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld. i mean that rumsfeld himself is the one who approved of the torture of the so-called harsh interrogation techniques used on prisoners however the seventh circuit court of appeals said that they don't have the right to sue rumsfeld or anyone else in the military chain of command for that matter now as shocking as it seems for our military to torture whistleblowers who have nothing to do with the forces we're fighting against sadly this story is not unique u.s. forces abroad operate a new move from accountability every time we hear about rape murder torture or destruction of property it's always dismissed out of the adage war is hell well that's not good enough take the case of don lemon a paramedic for the defense contractor kellogg brown and root a subsidiary of good old halliburton following

a rocket attack near her living quarters in southern iraq dawn woke up covered in blood she had been raped and sodomized by an american soldier and one of her very own our colleagues said of her lawyer taking action to support her leaman was ordered by her superiors to keep quiet instead but as despicable as don lemon's cases there are countless others like the story of jamie lee jones who was raped by multiple men and a k.b.r. camp in iraq when she spoke out about the incident k.b.r. guards locked turn a shipping container and threatened to fire her if she tried to leave or tell anyone about what happened jamie finally was able to get out and found a lawsuit against how the burn and its subsidiary now i wish i could say that this story has a happy ending but it doesn't and this is the part that really makes me sick and examination by army doctors showed that she had been raped and analeigh but the rape kit suddenly disappeared after it was handed over to k.b.r. officials not only to jamie lose the case in court but k.b.r.

countersued her wanting her to pay the two million dollars they spent in court fees and also for slandering their name home on. so sorry caveat that torture rape an unlawful detainer it's bad p.r. for you you know it would be a lot easier to sympathize with k.b.r. if this was an isolated incident and if they held the rapists accountable but as we know this other lawlessness with military contractors is systematic this is just another example of the horrible nightmare that is u.s. involvement in iraq don't forget or forget who the number one for prominent for the war was dick cheney who as it turns out was a former hell burns what a surprise now as much as obama would like to have everyone believe that the war in iraq is over he's left behind a huge contingent from the state department along with tens of thousands of armed private contractors who operate above the law but seriously can you blame the people that the u.s.

government hires when the us government itself was the one approving torture and creating a legal framework for it people are hurt their lives are ruined forever and all they want is justice but they won't get it because what we're left with today is a culture of impunity where our president has declared that looking forward is more important than restoring the rule of law and holding the war criminals accountable centrally what obama has done is normalize this criminality. and all of the cases and with the government just passing the buck dismissing them as just a few bad apples when the courts are throwing out lawsuits against the people that authorize torture and abuse what we're left with is a two tiered justice system who's left to decide who's to blame but yeah let's just forget about it we've got four more years to just look forward.

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